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CONTINUOUS DOWN POUR KEEPS THOUSANDS FROM BUSINESS MEN'S FAIR GROUNDS PICNIC -- MAY GET ANOTHER DATE IN SEPTEMBER Supported in our opinion by nine-tenths of any group of people selected from any section of the city and county, who was to any extent familiar with the thoroughly advertised propram of the Louisville Business Men's Association, we are not wrong when we say an unusually cool August rain that started Monday afternoon about 1:30, continuing without a minute's let up until 8 o'clock at night, spoiled what was to be one of the biggest, the greatest, the most appreciated and enjoyable days for young and old known to these parts. For six months the president of the association carried the most perfect, attractive arrangement for the business men, friends and the public in mind, and when made known received the hearty approval and unanimous endorsement of the members of the association, who put their shoulders to the wheel in an effort to put the program over in a way that would be pleasing and beneficial to all.
Secures State Fair Grounds
With a program of attractions, amusements and entertainment that called for a large place with necessary advantages and conveniences, the State Fair Grounds were secured. A style and method of advertising was put in motion that became known to every household, and it was only a few days after the announcement that 100 gallons of ice cream would be given free to children, with the free admission to the grounds, that more than 5,000 tickets had been given out to the children who clamored for them.
Rain Follows Disbanding Of Beautiful Parade Early Monday morning as "Old Sol" brilliantly showed his face every body was busy whipping in line what will be remembered as the most beau? tiful parade, which included a representation of the many varied business organizations and institutions of the community, with more than 60 automobiles of every make from the seven passenger Cadillac to the Ford coupe, driven by their owners with their families or members of the business as occupants, with simple and sensible cards bearing the name of the business as the only decoration, with the exception of an auto or so and the floats which were artistically and appropriately decorated in a fashion that made the big parade as a whole one that any Louisville citizen should have been pleased to see. The parade headed by motorcycle police and the Booker T. Washington Band started at 6th and Walnut and after its round in the west and east sections of the city to Sixteenth and Breckenridge Sts., where it disbanded, and in just a few minut es rain which marred the program for the rest of the day and night followed.
500 Children Served; [4,500?] Disapoointed While the parade was in progress the cars were being rushed on by parents with the glad hearted children who seldom get an opportunity for so many good things and such recreation and fun as is afforded at the Fair Grounds. Therefore before the rain put a stop to the going more than 500 children and a fair number of mothers had reached the grounds and therefore became the beneficiaries of what the business men had arranged for them, while more than 4,500 in Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville suffered bitter disappointment. From every source comes the report that hundreds of parents had everything in readiness for a big day with their children as guests of the business men, and they were as badly disappointed because they could not enjoy the day as the children were. It is reported that there were few families in New Albany that had not planned to spend the day over on this side at the Louisville Business Men's Association picnic at the Fair Grounds. It is the consensus of opinion that not one less than 10,000 persons would have passed thru the gates at the grounds had the day been fair.
May Get Another Day
The secretary and other members of the board of the State Fair Grounds are very much in sympathy with the business men and the hundreds of the children who were disappointed last [Monday?] and the matter of letting the association have another day during September, in which to carry out its program is now under consideration. And all may yet get that which would have been their's last Monday.
COLORED COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF Y.W.C.A. REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE WHITE APPOINTMENT -- WON'T SURRENDER SELF RESPECT WOMANHOOD The Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. controversy reached its crisis at the meeting of the Committee of Management Wednesday evening, August 7, when the following recommendations were offered and unanimously passed:
1st. That all activities at the branch be suspended awaiting an adjustment of the disagreement between the Board of Directors at Central Association and the Committee of Management of Phyllis Wheatley Branch.
2nd. That a new Chairman of Colored Work be appointed from Central Association.
3rd. That the present Committee of Management remain intact, and since the member's election to that committee is made possible by the votes of their own racial group. only that body can remove them.
The above recommendations were submitted with the approval of the National Administrator of Colored Work, it is claimed.
It is reported that the election of a successor to Miss Martha Webster, former school teacher who founded the local work among colored people, was done without the knowledge or approval of the Committee of Management, who should administer the work of the Branch, and hence it became necessary to inform the present incumbent, Mrs T. C. Brock, that she was not regularly elected and could not be so recognized.
Interviewed by a Leader representative, one of the Y. W. C. A. organizers and leaders in the present fight for the rights of the colored women who compose the Committee of Management, had the following to say:
"White dominance and selfish ambition of secretaries is not the true Y. W. C. A. spirit. Rather should we strive for Christian fellowship and inter-racial co-operation.
"Tis a sad comment and a blow to racial pride, when one of our own group refuses to cooperate with and for her racial group, and openly remarks that she cares nothing about public sentiment, and that she will never need the chairman or any member of the Committee of Management, who have labored long and faithfully, to establish and maintain a Y. W. C. A. in this city.
"But the bitterest dreg was offered when Miss Webster -- whose vision, loyalty, love and sacrifice made the work, was asked to leave the building--actually cast out from the home you've made! If this isn't unchristian and base ingratitude, Ye Gods, what is it?
"Citizens bestir yourselves and assume the financial responsigiity of your secretary's salaries, that such humiliation and dominance may never occur again.
"Be it said, to the rcedit of the twenty one women of our own racial group, who are elected to the Committee of Management by the People of the Community, that their sense of responsibility in this crisis has been keen, and if an amicable adjustment can be reached--all is well; but not at the surrender of self-respect and womanhood.
The underlying principle of operation has been wrongly executed and this should be corrected, for mutual respect and a common working basis," said she.
The local Y. W. C. A. work is practically stopped pending the outcome of the present controversy.
FIGHT fOLLOWS AMERICANS
GREATEST

CONTINUOUS DOWN POUR KEEPS THOUSANDS FROM BUSINESS MEN'S FAIR GROUNDS PICNIC -- MAY GET ANOTHER DATE IN SEPTEMBER Supported in our opinion by nine-tenths of any group of people selected from any section of the city and county, who was to any extent familiar with the thoroughly advertised propram of the Louisville Business Men's Association, we are not wrong when we say an unusually cool August rain that started Monday afternoon about 1:30, continuing without a minute's let up until 8 o'clock at night, spoiled what was to be one of the biggest, the greatest, the most appreciated and enjoyable days for young and old known to these parts. For six months the president of the association carried the most perfect, attractive arrangement for the business men, friends and the public in mind, and when made known received the hearty approval and unanimous endorsement of the members of the association, who put their shoulders to the wheel in an effort to put the program over in a way that would be pleasing and beneficial to all.
Secures State Fair Grounds
With a program of attractions, amusements and entertainment that called for a large place with necessary advantages and conveniences, the State Fair Grounds were secured. A style and method of advertising was put in motion that became known to every household, and it was only a few days after the announcement that 100 gallons of ice cream would be given free to children, with the free admission to the grounds, that more than 5,000 tickets had been given out to the children who clamored for them.
Rain Follows Disbanding Of Beautiful Parade Early Monday morning as "Old Sol" brilliantly showed his face every body was busy whipping in line what will be remembered as the most beau? tiful parade, which included a representation of the many varied business organizations and institutions of the community, with more than 60 automobiles of every make from the seven passenger Cadillac to the Ford coupe, driven by their owners with their families or members of the business as occupants, with simple and sensible cards bearing the name of the business as the only decoration, with the exception of an auto or so and the floats which were artistically and appropriately decorated in a fashion that made the big parade as a whole one that any Louisville citizen should have been pleased to see. The parade headed by motorcycle police and the Booker T. Washington Band started at 6th and Walnut and after its round in the west and east sections of the city to Sixteenth and Breckenridge Sts., where it disbanded, and in just a few minut es rain which marred the program for the rest of the day and night followed.
500 Children Served; [4,500?] Disapoointed While the parade was in progress the cars were being rushed on by parents with the glad hearted children who seldom get an opportunity for so many good things and such recreation and fun as is afforded at the Fair Grounds. Therefore before the rain put a stop to the going more than 500 children and a fair number of mothers had reached the grounds and therefore became the beneficiaries of what the business men had arranged for them, while more than 4,500 in Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville suffered bitter disappointment. From every source comes the report that hundreds of parents had everything in readiness for a big day with their children as guests of the business men, and they were as badly disappointed because they could not enjoy the day as the children were. It is reported that there were few families in New Albany that had not planned to spend the day over on this side at the Louisville Business Men's Association picnic at the Fair Grounds. It is the consensus of opinion that not one less than 10,000 persons would have passed thru the gates at the grounds had the day been fair.
May Get Another Day
The secretary and other members of the board of the State Fair Grounds are very much in sympathy with the business men and the hundreds of the children who were disappointed last [Monday?] and the matter of letting the association have another day during September, in which to carry out its program is now under consideration. And all may yet get that which would have been their's last Monday.
COLORED COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF Y.W.C.A. REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE WHITE APPOINTMENT -- WON'T SURRENDER SELF RESPECT WOMANHOOD The Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. controversy reached its crisis at the meeting of the Committee of Management Wednesday evening, August 7, when the following recommendations were offered and unanimously passed:
1st. That all activities at the branch be suspended awaiting an adjustment of the disagreement between the Board of Directors at Central Association and the Committee of Management of Phyllis Wheatley Branch.
2nd. That a new Chairman of Colored Work be appointed from Central Association.
3rd. That the present Committee of Management remain intact, and since the member's election to that committee is made possible by the votes of their own racial group. only that body can remove them.
The above recommendations were submitted with the approval of the National Administrator of Colored Work, it is claimed.
It is reported that the election of a successor to Miss Martha Webster, former school teacher who founded the local work among colored people, was done without the knowledge or approval of the Committee of Management, who should administer the work of the Branch, and hence it became necessary to inform the present incumbent, Mrs T. C. Brock, that she was not regularly elected and could not be so recognized.
Interviewed by a Leader representative, one of the Y. W. C. A. organizers and leaders in the present fight for the rights of the colored women who compose the Committee of Management, had the following to say:
"White dominance and selfish ambition of secretaries is not the true Y. W. C. A. spirit. Rather should we strive for Christian fellowship and inter-racial co-operation.
"Tis a sad comment and a blow to racial pride, when one of our own group refuses to cooperate with and for her racial group, and openly remarks that she cares nothing about public sentiment, and that she will never need the chairman or any member of the Committee of Management, who have labored long and faithfully, to establish and maintain a Y. W. C. A. in this city.
"But the bitterest dreg was offered when Miss Webster -- whose vision, loyalty, love and sacrifice made the work, was asked to leave the building--actually cast out from the home you've made! If this isn't unchristian and base ingratitude, Ye Gods, what is it?
"Citizens bestir yourselves and assume the financial responsigiity of your secretary's salaries, that such humiliation and dominance may never occur again.
"Be it said, to the rcedit of the twenty one women of our own racial group, who are elected to the Committee of Management by the People of the Community, that their sense of responsibility in this crisis has been keen, and if an amicable adjustment can be reached--all is well; but not at the surrender of self-respect and womanhood.
The underlying principle of operation has been wrongly executed and this should be corrected, for mutual respect and a common working basis," said she.
The local Y. W. C. A. work is practically stopped pending the outcome of the present controversy.
FIGHT fOLLOWS AMERICANS
GREATEST